Network Working Group                                                      
  Internet Draft                             Matthew R. Meyer (Ed)  
                                                   Global Crossing 
                                        Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Ed) 
                                                Cisco Systems, Inc 
                                                     Denver Maddux  
                                                Limelight Networks
                                                 Curtis Villamizar  
                                                     Amir Birjandi   
                                                  Juniper Networks 
                                                              
  Proposed status: Standard                                      
  Expires: March 2007                                 October 2006 
   
   
               MPLS Traffic Engineering Soft Preemption 
                                 
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Abstract
 
  This document details MPLS Traffic Engineering Soft Preemption, a 
  suite of protocol modifications extending the concept of preemption 
  with the goal of reducing/eliminating traffic disruption of preempted 
  Traffic Engineering Label Switched Paths (TE LSPs). Initially MPLS 
  RSVP-TE was defined supporting only immediate TE LSP displacement 
  upon preemption. The utilization of a preemption pending flag helps 
  more gracefully mitigate the re-route process of preempted TE LSP. 
  For the brief period soft preemption is activated, reservations 
  (though not necessarily traffic levels) are in effect under-
  provisioned until the TE LSP(s) can be re-routed. For this reason, 
  the feature is primarily but not exclusively interesting in MPLS 
  enabled IP networks with Differentiated Services and Traffic 
  Engineering capabilities.  
 
Conventions used in this document 
   
  The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", 
  "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED",  "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this 
  document are to be interpreted as described in RFC-2119 [i]. 
   
Table of Contents 
   
  1. Terminology...............................................3 
     1.1 Acronyms and Abbreviations............................3 
     1.2 Nomenclature..........................................3 
  2. Motivations...............................................4 
  3. Introduction..............................................4 
  4. RSVP Extensions...........................................5 
     4.1 SESSION-ATTRIBUTE Flags...............................5 
     4.2 RRO IPv4/IPv6 Sub-Object Flags........................5 
     4.3 Use of the RRO IPv4/IPv6 Sub-Object in Path message...5 
  5. Theory of Operation.......................................6 
  6. Elements Of Procedures....................................7 
     6.1 On a soft preempting LSR..............................7 
     6.2 On Head-end LSR of soft preempted TE LSP..............8   
  7. Interoperability..........................................9     
  8. Management................................................10 
  9. IANA Considerations.......................................10 
  10. Security considerations..................................10   
  11. Acknowledgment...........................................10  
  12. Intellectual Property Considerations.....................10 
  13. References...............................................11 
     13.1 Normative references.................................11   
     13.2 Informative references...............................11    
  14. Authors' Addresses.......................................12     
   
 
 
 
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1. Terminology
   
  This document follows the nomenclature of the MPLS Architecture 
  defined in [MPLS-ARCH]. 
 
1.1 Acronyms and Abbreviations 
    
  CSPF            Constraint-based Shortest Path First.  
  DS              Differentiated Services  
  LER             Label Edge Router  
  LSR             Label Switching Router  
  LSP             Label Switched Path  
  MPLS            MultiProtocol Label Switching  
  PPend           Preemption Pending  
  RSVP            Resource ReSerVation Protocol 
  TE              Traffic Engineering  
  TE LSP       Traffic Engineering Label Switched Path  
   
1.2 Nomenclature
    
  Make Before Break - Technique used to non-intrusively alter the path 
  of a TE LSP. The ingress LER first signals the new path, sharing the 
  bandwidth with the primary TE LSP (to avoid double booking), then 
  switches forwarding over to a new path. Finally the old path state is 
  torn down.  
    
  Numerically Lower Preemption Priority - TE LSPs have setup and hold 
  preemption priorities of zero (best) through seven (worst).  A 
  numerically lower setup priority TE LSP is capable of preempting a 
  numerically higher hold priority TE LSP.   
    
  Preemption Pending flag - This flag is set on an IPv4 or IPv6 RSVP 
  Resv RRO sub-object to signal to the TE LSP ingress LER that the TE 
  LSP is about to be preempted and must be re-signaled (in a non 
  disruptive fashion, with make before break) along another path. If 
  present in the Path RRO, it is used to alert downstream LSRs that the 
  LSP was soft preempted upstream.  
    
  Point of Preemption - the midpoint or ingress LSR which due to RSVP 
  provisioning levels is forced to either hard preempt or under-
  provision and signal soft preemption.   
    
  Hard Preemption - The (typically default) preemption process in which 
  higher numeric priority TE LSPs are intrusively displaced at the 
  point of preemption by lower numeric priority TE LSPs. In hard 
  preemption the TE LSP is torn down before reestablishment.  
    
  Soft Preemption - The preemption process in which the point of 
  preemption allows a brief under-provisioning period while the ingress 
 
 
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  router is alerted to the requirement for reroute. In soft preemption 
  the TE LSP is reestablished before being torn down.  
    
  Soft Preemption Desired Flag - This flag is set on the  
  SESSION_ATTRIBUTES Flags in the Path message for the TE LSP indicate 
  to LSRs along the path that, should the LSP need to be preempted, 
  soft preemption should be used if supported.  
    
2. Motivations
    
  Initially MPLS RSVP-TE [RSVP-TE] was defined supporting only one 
  method of TE LSP preemption which immediately tears down TE LSPs, 
  disregarding the preempted in-transit traffic. This simple but abrupt 
  process nearly guarantees preempted traffic will be discarded, if 
  only briefly, until the RSVP Path Error message reaches and is 
  processed by the ingress LER and a new forwarding path can be 
  established. In cases of actual resource contention this might be 
  helpful, however preemption may be triggered by mere reservation 
  contention and reservations may not reflect forwarding plane 
  contention up to the moment. The result is that when conditions that 
  promote preemption exist and hard preemption is the default behavior, 
  inferior priority preempted traffic may be needlessly discarded when 
  sufficient bandwidth exists for both the preempted LSP and the 
  preempting TE LSP(s).    
    
  Hard preemption may be a requirement to protect numerically lower 
  preemption priority traffic in a non Diff-Serv enabled architecture, 
  but in a Diff-Serv enabled architecture, one need not rely 
  exclusively upon preemption to enforce a preference for the most 
  valued traffic since the marking and queuing disciplines should 
  already be aligned for those purposes. Moreover, even in non Diff-
  Serv aware networks, depending on the TE LSP sizing rules (imagine 
  all LSPs are sized at double their observed traffic level), 
  reservation contention may not accurately reflect the potential for 
  forwarding plane congestion.  
    
3. Introduction
    
  In an MPLS RSVP-TE [RSVP-TE] enabled IP network, hard preemption is 
  the default behavior. Hard preemption provides no mechanism to allow 
  preempted TE LSPs to be handled in a make-before-break fashion: the 
  hard preemption scheme instead utilizes a very intrusive method that 
  can cause traffic disruption for a potentially large amount of TE 
  LSPs. Without an alternative, network operators either accept this 
  limitation, or remove functionality by using only one preemption 
  priority or using invalid bandwidth reservation values. 
  Understandably desirable features like ingress LER automated TE 
  reservation adjustments are less palatable when preemption is 
  intrusive and high network stability levels are a concern.   
    
 
 
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  This document defines the use of additional signaling and maintenance 
  mechanisms to alert the ingress LER of the preemption that is pending 
  and allow for temporary under-provisioning while the preempted tunnel 
  is re-routed in a non disruptive fashion (make-before-break) by the 
  ingress LER. During the period that the tunnel is being re-routed, 
  link capacity is under-provisioned on the midpoint where preemption 
  initiated and potentially one or more links upstream along the path 
  where other soft preemptions may have occurred. Optionally the 
  downstream path to the egress LER may be signaled as well to more 
  efficiently deal with any near simultaneous soft preemptions that may 
  have been triggered downstream of the initial preemption.  
    
4. RSVP Extensions
    
4.1 SESSION-ATTRIBUTE Flags
    
  To explicitly signal the desire for a TE LSP to benefit from the soft 
  preemption mechanism (and so not to be hard preempted if the soft 
  preemption mechanism is available), the following flag of the 
  SESSION-ATTRIBUTE object (for both the C-Type 1 and 7) is defined:  
                   
  Soft preemption desired:  0x40  (to be confirmed by IANA) 
   
4.2 RRO IPv4/IPv6 Sub-Object Flags
   
  To report that a soft preemption is pending for an LSP, a new flag is 
  defined in the IPv4/IPv6 sub-object carried in the RRO object message 
  defined in [RSVP-TE]. This flag is called the preemption pending 
  (PPend) flag. A compliant LSR MUST support the RRO object, as defined 
  in [RSVP-TE].  
     
  Several flags in the RRO IPv4 and IPv6 sub-object have been defined 
  in [RSVP-TE]and [FAST-REROUTE]:  
    
  This documents defines a new flag for the use of soft preemption 
  named the 'Preemption pending' flag and defined as below:  
    
  Preemption pending: 0x10  
   
  The preempting node sets this flag if a pending preemption is in 
  progress for the TE LSP. This indicates to the ingress LER of this 
  LSP that it SHOULD be re-routed.  
            
4.3 Use of the RRO IPv4/IPv6 Sub-Object in Path message
    
  An LSR MAY use the Preemption pending flag in the IPv4/IPv6 RRO sub- 
  object carried in a PATH RRO message to simultaneously alert 
  downstream LSRs that the LSP was soft preempted upstream.  This 
  information could be used by the downstream LSR to bias future soft 
 
 
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  preemption candidates toward LSPs already soft preempted elsewhere in 
  their path.  
    
5. Theory of Operation
    
Let's consider the following example:   
   
  R0--1G--R1---155----R2          LSP1:        LSP2:   
          | \         |   
          |   \      155        R0-->R1      R1<--R2   
          |    \      |                 \      |   
         155   1G     R3                 V     V   
          |       \   |                 R5     R4   
          |        \ 155   
          |          \|   
          R4----1G----R5   
    
             Figure 1: example of Soft Preemption Operation 
    
  In the network depicted above in figure 1, consider the following  
  conditions:  
    
  -Reservable BW on R0-R1, R1-R5 and R4-R5 is 1Gb/sec. 
  -Reservable BW on R1-R2, R1-R4, R2-R3, R3-R5 is 155 Mb/sec.  
  -Bandwidths and costs are identical in both directions. 
  -Each circuit has an IGP metric of 10 and IGP metric is used by CSPF.  
  -Two TE tunnels are defined:   
          - LSP1: 155 Mb, setup/hold priority 0 tunnel, path R0-R1-R5.   
          - LSP2: 155 Mb, setup/hold priority 7 tunnel, path R2-R1-R4.   
  Both TE LSPs are signaled with the soft preemption desired bit of 
  their SESSION-ATTRIBUTE object set.  
  -Circuit R1-R5 fails. 
  -Soft Preemption is functional.  
   
  When the circuit R1-R5 fails, R1 detects the failure and sends an 
  updated IGP LSA/LSP and Path Error message to all the head-end LSRs 
  having a TE LSP traversing the failed link (R0 in the example above). 
  Either form of notification may arrive at the head-end LSRs first. 
  Upon receiving the link failure notification, R0 triggers a TE LSP 
  re-route of LSP1, and re-signals LSP1 along shortest path available 
  satisfying the TE LSP constraints: R0-R1-R4-R5 path. The Resv 
  messages for LSP1 travel in the upstream direction (from the 
  destination to the head-end LSR - R5 to R0 in this example). LSP2 is 
  soft preempted at R1 as it has a numerically lower priority value and 
  both bandwidth reservations cannot be satisfied on the R1-R4 link. 
    
  Instead of sending a path tear for LSP2 upon preemption as with hard 
  preemption (which would result in an immediate traffic disruption for 
  LSP2), R1s local bandwidth accounting for LSP2 is zeroed and a 
  preemption pending flagged Resv RRO for LSP2 is issued. Optionally, 
 
 
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  R1 MAY simultaneously send a soft preemption flagged Path RRO 
  notifying downstream LSRs of LSP2s soft preemption.   
   
  Upon reception of the LSP2's Resv message with the preemption pending 
  flag set, R2 may update the working copy of the TE-DB before running 
  CSPF for the new LSP. In the case that Diff-Serv [DIFF-MPLS] and TE 
  [RSVP-TE] are deployed, receiving preemption pending may imply to a 
  head-end LSR that the available bandwidth for the affected priority 
  level and numerically greater priority levels has been exhausted for 
  the indicated node interface. R2 may choose to reduce or zero 
  available bandwidth for the implied priority range until more 
  accurate information is available (i.e. a new IGP TE update is 
  received).  
    
  It follows that R2 re-computes a new path and performs a non traffic 
  disruptive rerouting of the new TE LSP T2 by means of the make-
  before-break procedure. The old path is then torn down. 
    
6. Elements Of Procedures
   
6.1 On a soft preempting LSR 
   
  When a new TE LSP is signaled which requires to preempt a set of TE 
  LSP(s) because not all TE LSPs can be accommodated on a specific 
  interface, a node triggers a preemption action which consists of 
  selecting the set of TE LSPs that must be preempted so as to free up 
  some bandwidth in order to satisfy the newly signaled numerically 
  lower preemption TE LSP. 
   
  For each preempted TE LSP, instead of sending a path tear upon 
  preemption as with hard preemption (which would result in an 
  immediate traffic disruption for the preempted TE LSP), the 
  preempting node's local bandwidth accounting for the preempted TE LSP 
  is zeroed and a preemption pending flagged Resv RRO for that TE LSP 
  is issued upstream toward the head-end LSR.  
   
  Optionally, the preempting node MAY simultaneously send a soft 
  preemption flagged Path RRO notifying downstream LSRs of soft 
  preemption.  If more than one soft preempted TE LSP has the same 
  head-end LSR, these soft preemption Resv (Path) messages may be 
  bundled together. 
 
  The preempting node MUST immediately send a Resv message with the 
  preemption pending RRO flag set for each soft preempted TE LSP. The 
  node MAY use the occurrence of soft preemption to trigger an 
  immediate IGP update or influence the scheduling of an IGP update.   
    
  Should a refresh event for a soft preempted TE LSP arrive before the 
  soft preemption timer expires, the soft preempting node MUST continue 
  to refresh the TE LSP.  
 
 
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  When the MESSAGE-ID extensions defined in [REFRESH-REDUCTION] are 
  available, Resv messages with the RRO preemption pending flag set 
  SHOULD be sent in reliable mode. 
   
  In the case that reservation availability is restored at the point of 
  preemption, the point of preemption MAY issue a Resv message with the 
  preemption pending flag unset to signal restoration to the head-end 
  LSR.  This implies that a head-end LSR might have delayed or been 
  unsuccessful in re-signaling.  
    
  To guard against a situation where bandwidth under-provisioning will 
  last forever, a local timer (named the "Soft preemption timer") MUST 
  be started on the preemption node, upon soft preemption. If this 
  timer expires, the preempting node SHOULD send a PathTear and either 
  a ResvTear or a PathErr with the 'Path_State_Removed' flag set. 
   
  Selection of the preempted TE LSP at a preempting mid-point: when a 
  numerically lower priority TE LSP is signaled that requires the 
  preemption of a set of numerically higher priority LSPs, the node 
  where preemption is to occur has to make a decision on the set of TE 
  LSP(s), candidates for preemption. This decision is a local decision 
  and various algorithms can be used, depending on the objective. See 
  [PREEMPT-EXP]. As already mentioned, soft preemption causes a 
  temporary link under provisioning condition while the soft preempted 
  TE LSPs are rerouted by their respective head-end LSRs. In order to 
  reduce this under provisioning exposure, a soft-preempting LSR MAY 
  check first if there exists soft preempt-able TE LSP bandwidth 
  flagged PPend by another node but still available for soft-preemption 
  locally. If sufficient overlap bandwidth exists the LSR MAY attempt 
  to soft preempt the same LSP. This would help reducing the 
  temporarily elevated under-provisioning ratio on the links where soft 
  preemption occurs and the number of preempted TE LSPs. Optionally, a 
  midpoint LSR upstream or downstream from a soft preempting node MAY 
  choose to flag the LSPs soft preempted state. In the event a local 
  preemption is needed, the relevant priority level LSPs from the cache 
  are soft preempted first, followed by the normal soft and hard 
  preemption selection process for the given priority.  
   
  Under specific circumstances such as unacceptable link congestion, a 
  node MAY decide to hard preempt a TE LSP (by sending a PathTear and 
  either a ResvTear or a PathErr with the 'Path_State_Removed' flag 
  set) even if its head-end LSR explicitly requested 'soft preemption' 
  ('Soft Preemption desired' flag of the corresponding SESSION-
  ATTRIBUTE object set). Note that such decision MAY also be taken for 
  TE LSPs under soft preemption state. 
  
6.2 On Head-end LSR of soft preempted TE LSP
    
 
 
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  Upon reception of a Resv message with the preemption pending flag 
  set, the head-end LSR MAY first update the working copy of the TE-DB 
  before computing a new path (e.g by running CSPF) for the new LSP. In 
  the case that Diff-Serv [DIFF-MPLS] and MPLS Traffic Engineering 
  [RSVP-TE] are deployed, receiving preemption pending may imply to a 
  head-end LSR that the available bandwidth for the affected priority 
  level and numerically greater priority levels has been exhausted for 
  the indicated node interface. A head-end LSR MAY choose to reduce or 
  zero available bandwidth for the implied priority range until more 
  accurate information is available (i.e. a new IGP TE update is 
  received).  
    
  Once a new path has been computed, the soft preempted TE LSP is 
  rerouted using the non traffic disruptive make-before-break 
  procedure. 
  
  As a result of soft preemption, no traffic will be needlessly black 
  holed due to mere reservation contention. If loss is to occur, it 
  will be due only to an actual traffic congestion scenario and 
  according to the operators Diff-Serv (if Diff-Serv is deployed) and 
  queuing scheme.  
   
7. Interoperability
    
  Backward compatibility should be assured as long as the 
  implementation followed the recommendations set forth in [RSVP-TE]. 
  When processing an RRO, unrecognized sub-objects SHOULD be ignored 
  and passed on. An LSR without soft preemption capabilities but that 
  followed the aforementioned recommendation will simply ignore the RRO 
  Preemption Pending flag and treat the Resv message as a regular Resv 
  refresh message. As a consequence, the soft preempted TE LSP will not 
  be rerouted with make before break by the head-end LSR.   
    
  As mentioned previously, to guard against a situation where bandwidth 
  under-provisioning will last forever, a local timer (soft preemption 
  timer) MUST be started on the preemption node, upon soft preemption. 
  When this timer expires, the soft preempted TE LSP SHOULD be hard 
  preempted by sending a PathTear and either a ResvTear or a PathErr 
  with the 'Path_State_Removed' flag set. This timer SHOULD be 
  configurable and a default value of 30 seconds is RECOMMENDED. 
   
  It is RECOMMENDED that configuring the default preemption timer to 0 
  will cause the implementation to use hard-preemption. 
    
  Soft Preemption as defined in this document is designed for use in 
  MPLS RSVP-TE enabled IP Networks and may not functionally translate 
  to some GMPLS technologies. As with backward compatibility, if a 
  device does not recognize a flag, it should pass the subobject 
  transparently.  
    
 
 
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8. Management
    
  Both the point of preemption and the ingress LER SHOULD provide some 
  form of accounting internally and to the network operator interface 
  with regard to which TE LSPs and how much capacity is under-
  provisioned due to soft preemption.  
    
  Displays of under-provisioning are recommended for the following  
  midpoint, ingress and egress views:  
   - Sum of current bandwidth per preemption priority per local 
  interface  
   - Sum of current bandwidth total per local interface  
   - Sum of current bandwidth total local router (ingress, egress,  
  midpoint)  
   - List current LSPs and bandwidth in PPend status   
   - List current sum bandwidth and session count in PPend status per  
  observed ERO hops (ingress, egress views only).  
   - Cumulative PPend events per observed ERO hops.  
  
9. IANA Considerations
    
  IANA [RFC-IANA] will not need to create a new registry. This document 
  requires the assignment of flags related to RFC3209 [RSVP-TE] 
  sections 4.1.1.1, 4.1.1.2, 4.7.1 and 4.7.2.  
    
  IANA will assign RRO IPv4/IPv6 sub-object flags defined in RFC3209  
  [RSVP-TE] sec 4.1.1.1 and 4.1.1.2 as detailed in section 4.2 of this 
  document.  
    
  IANA will assign session attribute flags for both the C-Type 1 and 7 
  (defined in RFC3209 [RSVP-TE] sec 4.7.1 and 4.7.2) as detailed in 
  section 4.1 of this document.  
  
10. Security Considerations
 
  This document does not introduce new security issues. The security 
  considerations pertaining to the original RSVP protocol [RSVP] remain 
  relevant.  
   
11. Acknowledgment 
   
  The authors would like to thank Carol Iturralde, Dave Cooper, Loa  
  Andersson, Arthi Ayyangar, Ina Minei and George Swallow for their 
  valuable comments.  
   
12. Intellectual Property Considerations
   
  The IETF takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any 
  Intellectual Property Rights or other rights that might be claimed to 
  pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in 
 
 
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  this document or the extent to which any license under such rights 
  might or might not be available; nor does it represent that it has 
  made any independent effort to identify any such rights. Information 
  on the procedures with respect to rights in RFC documents can be 
  found in BCP 78 and BCP 79. 
   
  Copies of IPR disclosures made to the IETF Secretariat and any 
  assurances of licenses to be made available, or the result of an 
  attempt made to obtain a general license or permission for the use of 
  such proprietary rights by implementers or users of this 
  specification can be obtained from the IETF on-line IPR repository at 
  http://www.ietf.org/ipr. 
   
  The IETF invites any interested party to bring to its attention any 
  copyrights, patents or patent applications, or other proprietary 
  rights that may cover technology that may be required to implement 
  this standard. Please address the information to the IETF at ietf-   
  ipr@ietf.org. 
 
13. References 
 
13.1 Normative references 
 
  [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate 
  Requirement Levels," RFC 2119. 
   
  [RFC-IANA] T. Narten and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an 
  IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", RFC 2434.  
 
  [MPLS-ARCH] Rosen, Viswanathan, Callon, "Multiprotocol Label 
  Switching Architecture", RFC3031, January 2001.  
    
  [RSVP] R. Braden, Ed., et al, "Resource ReSerVation protocol (RSVP) - 
  version 1 functional specification," RFC2205, September 1997.  
   
  [RSVP-TE] Awduche et al, "RSVP-TE: Extensions to RSVP for LSP 
  Tunnels", RFC3209, December 2001.  
    
13.2 Informative references 
     
  [REFRESH-REDUCTION] Berger et al, "RSVP Refresh Overhead Reduction   
  Extensions", RFC 2961, April 2001.  
   
  [FAST-REROUTE] P. Pan, Ed., G. Swallow, Ed., A. Atlas, Ed et al., 
  "Fast Reroute Extensions to RSVP-TE for LSP Tunnels", RFC 4090, May 
  2005. 
    
  [PREEMPT-EXP]De Oliveira, J., Vasseur, JP., Chen, L. and Scoglio, C., 
  "LSP Preemption Policies for MPLS Traffic Engineering",   
  daft-deoliviera-diff-te-preemption-02.txt, October 2003.  
 
 
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  [DIFF-MPLS]  Le Faucheur, F., Wu, L., Davie, B., Davari, S., 
  Vaananen, P., Krishnan, R., Cheval, P. and J. Heinanen, "Multi-
  Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Support of Differentiated Services", 
  RFC 3270, May 2002.  
   
 
14. Authors' Addresses
   
  Matthew R. Meyer  
  Global Crossing  
  3133 Indian Valley Tr.  
  Howell, MI 48855  
  USA  
  email: mrm@gblx.net, matthew.r.meyer@gmail.com  
   
  Denver Maddux  
  Limelight Networks
  USA  
  email: denver@nitrous.net 
   
  Jean-Philippe Vasseur 
  CISCO Systems, Inc. 
  300 Beaver Brook 
  Boxborough, MA 01719 
  USA 
  Email: jpv@cisco.com 
   
  Curtis Villamizar  
  AVICI 
  curtis@faster-light.net 
   
  Amir Birjandi   
  Juniper Networks  
  2251 corporate park dr ste 
  herndon, VA 20171 
  USA 
  abirjandi@juniper.net 
    
  
 
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